A LOUIS XV AND LATER ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, OLIVEWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF £13,000. (Click on image to enlarge).
This c1770 Secrétaire à Abbatant, stamped Joseph sold for £385,250 on May 3.
ANTIQUE furniture from an Irish country house to be sold at Christie’s in association with Mealy’s in London on May 23 is of rare quality and provenance. A c1765 Louis XV ormolu mounted tulipwood, olivewood, amaranth and marquetry Secrétaire à Abbatant from Mount Congreve in Co. Waterford is estimated at £30,000-50,000. It is attributed to Nicolas Petit, one of the great eighteenth century Parisian furniture makers. A note added to the catalogue explained that the secretaire had been restored and it was now described as 18th century and later. The estimate was revised downards to £10,000-20,000 and it sold for a hammer price of £13,000.
A 1770 gilt-bronze mounted amaranth and tulip wood Secrétaire à Abbatant with the stamp of Joseph Baumhauer, another prominent Parisian ébéniste, made £385,250 at Sotheby’s on May 3. It was from the collection of Prince and Princess Henry de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais.
Now on view at Christie’s on King St., London the 116 lots in the Mount Congreve sale are estimated to bring in £2.5 million.
UPDATE: THE SALE REALISED £3,438,150
See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 22 and April 16, 2012.